Founding Partners

Washington National Cathedral's Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation

Washington National Cathedral's Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation (CGJR) is the Cathedral's platform for international affairs. Founded in 2005, CGJR focuses its efforts on poverty, social justice, and peacemaking initiatives around the globe. The Center forges effective partnerships between Christian denominations,interfaith partners, governments, multilateral institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector to address the root causes of human suffering. CGJR amplifies the voice of the Cathedral on global justice and reconciliation issues in domestic and international arenas. It deploys the convening power of the Cathedral as a place of reconciliation and interfaith collaboration. It works to address the needs of people who are poor and oppressed.

Contact Information
Washington National Cathedral
The Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: 202-537-2178
Fax: 202-537-2160
www.cathedral.org/cathedral/college/cgjr/index.shtml
Staff Bios

Interaction

InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.- based international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focused on the world's poor and most vulnerable people. Collectively, InterAction's more than 165 members work in every developing country. Founded in 1984 and based in Washington, D.C., InterAction's member agencies are large and small, faith-based and secular and are headquartered across 25 states.

InterAction, as a leading advocate for poverty-focused development, works for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and halving poverty by 2015. Since the UN Fourth World Women's Conference in 1995, InterAction has been a force for ensuring that women and girls are at the center of development policy as well for building the capacity of organizations to integrate gender into their programs overseas.

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Religions for Peace

Religions for Peace is a growing global network that advances common action among the world's religious communities for peace. Religions for Peace has more than seventy inter-religious councils and groups, networks of religious youth and women's faith networks, and a World Council of religious leaders comprising the world's largest and most representative coalition of religious communities. Religions for Peace creates effective multi-religious partnerships to transform violent conflict, eradicate poverty, promote just and harmonious societies, and protect the earth.

The Religions for Peace Women's Mobilization Program was established in 1998 to advance the role of religious women in international development, peace-making and post-conflict reconstruction. The two overarching aims of the program are to ensure that the concerns and perspectives of women are mainstreamed in all of Religions for Peace's programming and to build the capacity of religious women of faith organizations to engage in peace building and sustainable development.

In 2001, the program launched the first-ever Global Network of Religious Women's Organizations. The growing network serves as an increasingly valuable resource for women of all faiths to communicate and learn from each other and to build bridges between faith-based organizations and major international agencies. At present, the Global Network includes more than 1,000 Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Indigenous, Sikh and Zoroastrian religious women's organizations. Some organizations in the network have a membership as large as 5,000 groups, while others have less than five. More recently, the program inaugurated four regional women of faith sub-networks in Africa, South East Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

Today, the Women's Mobilization Program continues to convene and train women religious leaders and representatives at local, national, regional and global levels. True to its mission, Religions for Peace is building the capacity of women of faith to assume increasingly visible leadership roles in transforming conflict, promoting peace, and advancing sustainable development. At the Women's Assembly in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2006, 400 participants from sixty-five countries adopted a Declaration, "Women of faith make available strength and hope when all seems hopeless."

Contact Info
Ms. Jacqueline Ogega
Director, Women's Mobilization Program
Religions for Peace–International
777 United Nations Plaza, 9th Floor
New York NY 10017
212.687.2163
jogega@wcrp.org
http://religionsforpeace.org
Staff Bios

Women Thrive Worldwide

Women Thrive Worldwide is the leading nonpartisan organization shaping U.S. Policy to benefit poor women worldwide.

Women Thrive Worldwide was created in 1998 by Elise Fiber Smith, Co-Founder and Founding Chair, and Ritu Sharma FOX, Co-Founder and President, to address the critical role that women play in developing countries, and to recognize that their voices were not being heard by U.S. decision-makers making policy that affects women worldwide. Since then, Women Thrive Worldwide has grown to include over 40 organizational members, and 15,000 individual activists across the United States. WOMEN THRIVE represents this collective voice while working to shape U.S. international assistance and trade programs with the goal of making poor women self sufficient and ending global poverty.

Contact Info
Women Thrive Worldwide
1825 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: (202) 884-8396
Fax: (202) 884-8366
Email: thrive@womenthrive.org
Website: www.womenthrive.org

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